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From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Libvirt <libvir-list@redhat.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"John Snow" <jsnow@redhat.com>,
	"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: A brief look at deprecating our JSON extensions over RFC 8259
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:43:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sg5nc5tm.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_NNyFM=bqN663o3r49tgpa21U9Easv9=EXzqW1Ygfqhg@mail.gmail.com> (Peter Maydell's message of "Tue, 23 Feb 2021 11:03:19 +0000")

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 at 09:33, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Misunderstanding: our JSON interpolation feature is *not* string
>> interpolation!  It interpolates *objects* into the QObject built by the
>> parser.
>
> Given that it's basically undocumented except in a scattered
> handful of comments inside the qjson parser implementation, it's
> not too surprising that people misunderstand it :-)

Yes, that's fair.

I added a fair amount of commentary, but it's heavily geared towards
maintainers, not users.

>                                                     (One surprising
> feature: the parser takes ownership of the object that you pass it
> via the '%p' interpolation, and will qobject_unref() it.)

Yes, %p takes over the reference.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-23 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-22 14:57 A brief look at deprecating our JSON extensions over RFC 8259 Markus Armbruster
2021-02-22 15:10 ` Peter Krempa
2021-02-22 15:24 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-02-22 15:43   ` Liviu Ionescu
2021-02-22 17:47   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-22 17:54     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-02-22 18:06       ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-23  9:31       ` Markus Armbruster
2021-02-23  9:37         ` Markus Armbruster
2021-02-23 11:03         ` Peter Maydell
2021-02-23 12:43           ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2021-02-23  9:06     ` Markus Armbruster
2021-02-23 10:59       ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-23 12:34         ` Markus Armbruster
2021-02-22 17:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-22 18:01   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-02-22 18:22   ` Peter Krempa
2021-02-22 18:25     ` Peter Krempa

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